Some Early Poems and Fragments

Oscar WILDE

Verlag: Edinburgh: privately printed (at the Tragara Press), 1974

Beschreibung

Rose wrappers. Spine slightly nicked at head, edges of covers faintly creased. Edition limited to 75 numbered copies. Texts, set in generous italics, taken, according to the printer, from "typescripts made by Stuart Mason", i.e. Wilde's bibliographer, the bookseller Christopher Millard. "Have you forgotten the ship, love, / I made as a childish toy, / When you were a little girl, love, / And I was a little boy? // . . . It is forty long years since then, love, / And your hair is silver grey, / And we sit in our old armchairs, love, / And we watch our children play. // And I have a wooden leg, love, / And the title of K.C.B., / For bringing her Majesty's fleet, love, / Over the stormy sea. // And I've never forgotten the ship, love, / I made as a childish toy, / When you were a little girl, love, / And I was a sailor boy." Halliwell specifies "pale blue Hodgkinson hand-made paper", but this is Hodgkinson's white. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers E100172

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Some Early Poems and Fragments

Verlag: Edinburgh: privately printed (at the Tragara Press)

Erscheinungsdatum: 1974

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition